Marada Brigade

The Marada Brigade, also known as the Zgharta Liberation Army, was a Lebanese Maronite militia formed in 1967 as Suleiman Frangieh's private militia. The Marada Brigade was affiliated with the Marada Movement, and it was pro-Syrian during the Lebanese Civil War, with its leader Tony Frangieh fighting against Israel in addition to the Lebanese National Movement, PLO, Lebanese Forces, and Lebanese Army and being allied to the Kataeb Party, Tigers Militia, Guardians of the Cedars, Jammoul, and Syrian Arab Army. They had 3,500 fighters during the war, and after the 1978 Ehden massacre and the murder of Tony Frangieh and his family, Suleiman Frangieh, Jr. led the party on the sidelines of the civil war. It was disbanded in 1991, and the Marada Movement became a political party.